[Leica] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago

[Jim Nichols]

A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, 
including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside.  
Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger acquaintance 
asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has been on a shelf 
in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and limited in my 
activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of the past.

Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs.  I am easy to recognize by  the 
Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck.  The Cliff next to me was a very 
young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to supervise 
operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. The next Jim 
was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was a computer 
technician.  All of us worked long night shifts in the past, because 
that was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we used large 
quantities of it.

Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html

I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but the 
photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, we do 
have some colorful chacters.

-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA